Every category where a model named Akeneo PIM for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Product information management	Revenue operations	25%	2 of 68	17%	54	accepted challenger
Order management systems	Revenue operations	0%	46 of 131	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Zoho Inventory at 25%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Akeneo PIM yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Akeneo PIM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	2	1	0	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	1	2	0	2	5
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	2	0	2	6
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	4	1	0	5
Mistral Small	0	1	1	1	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	1	0	1	4
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	2	1	5
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	1	0	0	3
Kimi K2	3	1	0	0	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	4	0	1	6
MiniMax M2.5	2	0	1	0	3
GPT-6 Luna	2	0	1	1	4
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	1	0	0	3

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct34 labels10

Paraphrase31 labels11

Comparative38 labels7not counted in share

Budget-constrained22 labels3

Scale-constrained19 labels3

Negative26 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative170 labels in all, every segment counted; 27 of the 35 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Akeneo is arguably the most recognized name in the PIM space because it bridges the gap between complex enterprise needs and user-friendliness.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · PIM · comparative prompt · first choice

“Highly popular for mid-market and enterprise retail/eCommerce. Very strong business-user interface, excellent "product completeness" tracking” Gemini 3.5 Flash · PIM · scale prompt · first choice

“Akeneo (Best Overall & Most Scalable) ... widely regarded as the industry standard for mid-market to enterprise companies” Gemini 3.5 Flash · PIM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“If you're a mid-market retailer with standard needs: Akeneo hits the sweet spot of usability and capability” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PIM · comparative prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Akeneo PIM: Users have encountered data management issues, including navigation challenges and cumbersome asset handling.” Llama 4 Maverick · PIM · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid Akeneo unless you have a dedicated internal IT person/project manager and a budget closer to $100K” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PIM · direct prompt · hard negative

“Enterprise-grade PIMs (such as Salsify, inriver, or Akeneo Enterprise) can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars a year.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · PIM · budget prompt · soft negative

“Users have encountered data management challenges, including navigation difficulties and cumbersome asset handling.” Mistral Small · PIM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Akeneo PIM, over the 169 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Akeneo PIM was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Pimcore109 of 16910Compare →

Inriver PIM104 of 16911Compare →

Plytix95 of 16953Compare →

Salsify92 of 1695Not among the top eight

Sales Layer64 of 16914Compare →

Stibo Systems STEP48 of 1699Not among the top eight

Syndigo45 of 1691Not among the top eight

Catsy28 of 1693Not among the top eight

Pimberly24 of 1691Not among the top eight

Informatica Product 36021 of 1694Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Akeneo PIM. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 159 of the 169 answers that named Akeneo PIM and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

inriver.com113

atropim.com101

plytix.com98

g2.com62

omr.com48

pimcore.com47

netguru.com45

akeneo.comYour site41

checkthat.ai37

learn.g2.com36

587 of the 628 domain citations in answers naming Akeneo PIM came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

plytix.com/blog/best-pim73

atropim.com/en/blog/pim-software-comparison62

inriver.com/resources/best-pim-software56

inriver.com/resources/best-pim-solutions51

atropim.com/en/blog/pim-software-companies49

omr.com/en/reviews/contenthub/best-pim-systems43

g2.com/categories/product-information-management-pim35

learn.g2.com/best-pim-software35

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

akeneo.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Akeneo PIM takes 25% of first choices and Plytix takes 34%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “product information management system”

Position for “best product information management system”

Searches for its name, Google: 480 a month (“akeneo pim”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 15 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 33,435 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,123 · 135 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 4,545
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

20 ads · 20 text · 13 shown in the last 30 days

First shown November 2025, as Akeneo Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 20 in the year. 5 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

25%

rank 2 of 68 in PIM

Segment leader

34%

Plytix

First choices: 27 across its categories
Named in: 169 answers
Its own site cited: in 159 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on akeneo.com

4,489

subdomains included

Content

1,130

counted in the table below

Documentation

1,345

Product · Integration

1 · 5

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	509	10	2026-09-28	DAM, Direct mail
News or press	147	3	2026-09-23	SEO, DAM
Glossary or explainer	140	3	2026-09-18	DAM, SEO
Case study	131	19	2026-09-21
Report or ebook	110	9	2026-09-23	DAM
Podcast or video	41	1	2026-09-23
Conference or event	29	0	2022-09-08
Comparison	14	0	2026-05-15	SEO, DAM
Webinar or virtual event	9	0	2021-03-01

Most recent

2026-09-282026 isg pim pxm buyers guides blog
2026-09-25The 10 ai agents every product data team should be planning for blog
2026-09-23Akeneo survey finds shoppers no longer take prices at face value news or press
2026-09-23Accelerating product supplier onboarding for modern commerce podcast or video
2026-09-23The agentic pim playbook report or ebook
2026-09-21Decathlon case study

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page akeneo.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name DAM (10); 0 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Akeneo PIM

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Akeneo PIM; a claim can dispute any of them.

Akeneo 48Akeneo Enterprise 1Akeneo PIM + OMS 1Akeneo enterprise 1

Follow Akeneo PIM

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Akeneo PIM's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Akeneo PIM, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Akeneo PIM by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Akeneo PIM is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Akeneo PIM, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Akeneo PIM is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Akeneo PIM is among the products AI models recommend first in Product information management this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.